neat sel ing Tash OLE is Bye Public Meetings in the North Minister without. portfolio in charge of Northern Develop- ment, Alf Nunweiler, flew. into: ‘lerrace tor a briel Slop Monaay morning. Nunweiler, on his way, to cabinet “meetings currently being held in Victoria, made the slop in Terrace to drop aff a prepared ‘news release concerning'northern devetopment and to answer ~ few questions for the news media. : . The press release announced that a series of .community-. based public meetings in Northern British. Columbia. The purpose of the meetings would .be to explain. choices facing the government and lo record public conerns. Mr; Nunweiler said (read the release) {hal the residents of Northern cammunilies will be involved in the orderly planning of social and economic growth as it affects their community, “We plan to start with meetings in communilies such as Prince Rupert, Terrace, Burns Luke and Hazelton, among others,” he said. “As development of the Northern... B.C, economy, progresses meetings. will. be held if: other Northera- com- munities.” . Speaking lo the press later Mr. Nunweiler in-+ dicated: that’ such -meetings sot could form an on-going program, where the public would be able lo go on record as growth comes about, Nunweiler’s ‘release ‘and his rend) eeerrmeem cee Promler’s Offices, Victoria, D.C. CONE To make room for some thirty hundred and fifty students from Thornhill, Caledonia Senior Secondary School in. Terrace will go on shifts this September for at‘least twa months. ‘ Olficials of Terrace School District (District No.88, for- merly Skeena-Cassiar) have said the Thoruhill Junior Secondary School will. not be completed until the end of October, necessitating the shift classes al the school, The students will go to Caledonia along with 500 senior secondary students. _ The shift program will see abbreviated school days for the two groups, working for four, instead of (he usual five, hours. Although nothing has been finalized as yet it is expected there will be a morning session from 8-12 noon and an aftarnaon session from 1-5. Normal school operations are from 9 -.3:30. The school was originally slated for completion last December. but a number of problems have -arose on, ihe labour and supply front. The biggest single hold-back, however, was the interference by the Department of Municipal Affairs and Regional District Kitimat-Slikine- Regional District last spring. The school's water supply was to have come from the Skeena Riverina four inch main, | feeding a large storage tank under the school. “No way” said the RD and Municipal Affairs and they insisted on a ten inch pipe so that the system, could form the basis of eventual water service for the Thornhill area. “Delays in getting this ‘started led to delays caused by high water levels. i ‘three weeks time. The water system for the school will be finished in aboul Thornhill will have to wait for some-time, however, before il obtains a water system. . - Another delay came, also al lhe provincial level, The Department of Education. was . to have handled all phases of the construction of .the building, laking full responsibility for all stages of the work - fram design through tothe final turning over of the key to the School Board. farlier. this year the. Board suddenly found the project Regional District Interference Means Double Shift at Skeena HS. thrown in their’laps when the man that had been heading the projectin Victoria - Hal Jordan, resigned from the Department. The Board moved quickly to hire Mr, Jordan as a consultant and he has been involved in the building to date. Jordan came to Terrace last Wednesday to face the Board, explain some of the delays and to give a firm completion date. He entered the meeting dnd, in a very defensive tone told the Board the building would be completed four weeks from last Tuesday (the 13th of August}. From (hat point he moved toa. date two weeks ahead because of mill-work and then ended (he meeting by admitting he could sive no firm figure as he hadn't seen the building for over a month. : Thursday: Mr. Jordan met with representatives from the general contractor and toured] the building: He later returned to the Board and gave them a completion date. *The Board termed that datel “optimislic'’ and went ahead with plans which will carry the 950 grade elghi, nine and ten students through to the ead of October elsewhere. , SKEENA AUTO TAUCKS Metal Shop Ltd. . a DEALER LIC. 08.273 635-6572 Valume 68 No. 34 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1974 | Riverside Terrace, B.€ Conventional — Engines by MAZDA New & Used Vehicles TERRACE, B.C. PRICE 15 CENTS 7 pL No. the herald Hayes. Mayor Gordon Rowwland, beseiged by irale telephone calls concerning the increasing ‘nuisance of clouds of Fohle Lumber fly ash falling over a large portion of the city, has ence again attempted to have something done about this situation. Labour ‘Unrest — at Pohle ' Lumber | to retroactive wages either on lhe part of management.or-local ~ £72 IWA led to a work stoppag! last. Friday .; and . what. described by the union as a out: on :Monday . followed.b: ~ aboul retroactive pay stem answers to questions said that: : prior lo any meetings, residents of the:-communities.. involved - will ‘be:-given’ information collected by the government. The purpose of hig, according to the release, is To enable them *.lo participate in the discussions ina meaningful way. ~~ . Nunweiler indicated ‘that meetings would be open to the public to.enable full disrussion, .. cn points of concern‘and to get feed-back on various options available to the government. Written briefs, said Mr, Nun- weiler, would be welcomed both al the meetings and al any lime. They can be sen\-to his offices in. Victoria. . Tha meetings are to be held in early fall. ° Nunweiler’ ‘stated that: various government departments have been doing a remendous amount of work on: northern develapment and thal the point has now been reached where the information has to be: laken before the public. - _“L will co-ordinate © pubile meetings," said Mr. Nunweller, “through-out the North-west so that people can have their say in ihe choices we must make.” SPRING CREEK GOLF COURSE "Mayor Gordon Rowland of “Terrace ‘‘came down hard” on -Chairman Ev Clift of. the Kitimat-Stikine Regional _ Distriet Board in a letter ad- “dressed. “toMr, Clift dated August--9 ‘concerning the Minister’ of “Recrealion's -' Gecision not lo acquire now for * ‘Green Belt.purposes for former ’ Spring Creek Golf Course. aS The Terrace .Mayor was “made aware of this situation through a letter written by “George Reamsboltom, Executive Assistant lo Minister Jack Radlord, dated July 12, 174, ¢ In this letter’ Mr. Ream- sbotlom slates that it is (he from’ Uhree ‘different dates-in valved. ‘There appears to be a on June 1505 ws. ae ~ When Pohle workers did not gel: their retroactive pay in their last, pay. cheque’ they converged an‘the office to find out why: It would appear that the person responsible for the Pohle contract is absent on holidays and (he malter could net be resolved. The men decided to take the day off and relurned home. . sot When the ‘crew returned for. work on Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. they found the way: barred and were directed to the lunch rooms to await word from Vancouver. allawing them to resume work.. According to the effective April first anda third -Union by 9:00 p.m. some. had gone home and the remainder were told that there were nat sufficient. men’to carry out a. ’ shift and they were ‘all’ sent _ Yeported hack lo home. The next morning the men work responding to notices broadcast, by GF.T.K.-for both Pohle :Lumber and the Union. It palic¢y of. the Department of- Recreation and Conservation in recommending greenbelt purchases ta the Environmental Land ‘Use Committee, among olher consideralions, ta take inte account the priorities submitted by each _reglonal district. regional district has. indicated Spring Creek Golf Course as their number lwo. priority, number one being the Thornhill Creck property.’ Writing to Mr. Clift, who represents the District of appears thal no problem arose and work seems lo be back to normal pending onthe return of lo work of the person who-can- discuss the work agreement. * Heularly in the last few days, Amisunderstanding in regard certain yale re-troactive: to: ~ March 3 of this year another Terrace Council on the Regional - District Board, Mayor Rowland states that he had perused the information in Mr. Beam- sbotlom'’s letter with: “utter disbelief’ in view of the very" strong presentation thal was _ made by the District of Terrace In this case, ‘the . to establish the Spring Creek property .as the _ District's number one: priority, Mr. Rowland continues by saying lo Mr, Clift, thal he is sure that Mr, Clift will recall. the numerous meetings thal were held: and changes that were ' introduced'to arrive at the final Land Use Map, but at no time during any of these discussions Rowland has written a letter to President ‘R. Gross of Canadian Cellulose Company Lid., with a copy going (0 Minister of Lands .Forestg and Water Resources’. Bob Williams insisting that ihe situation is becoming more ani more intolerable, | 4 “ ‘The mayar staies in his letter that in thé past’ months, par-, thal he has received -numberous The Pohle Lumber Mill is the subject of two stories this week. One involves labo Mayor Writes CanCe phene calls complaining bit- lerly about the large amount of ° fly ash escaping from the Pyhle Mill operaduns. Mr. Rowland continues by reporting that these ‘conplainis have came from as far as'a mile and a half from the mill which means the fly ash is in fact covering more ~ than half the municipality. “Mr. Rowland reminds the‘ " CanCel. President that the city ~has been receiving: vernal — continuing fly-ash problem (see above.) promises for ihe past five years,. He agrees (hat some action has been taken to alleviate. the situation,. thai nothing has really been .ac- complished lo alleviate the situation. The mayor asks that Mr, Gross come up with some information of relief that can be passed on to irale.'Terracities, ~ - In ‘addition to. the fly ‘ash _probleni: the mayor. mentions another. serious © situation ' causing more than passing annoyance lo local cilizens. This is the policy of Pehle establishing a mill end dump grounds on Keith Avenue. Rowland states (hal nol only is -this huge pile of mill ends crealing an eyesore, bul also a verious serious fire hazard situation. He also hils al the practice of burying mill ends on very , valuable - com- mercial property with the resull - Unat good building lats are being a eae | re : Fly-ash eliminaled. Te The mayor ‘concludes vhis? letter by informing: Mr.. Gross thal he had taken the liberly of - showing Minister Bob Williams this dump yard on his last visit la Terrace and reminds that Mr. Williams had stated ata subsequent publie-meeting thal action would be taken io eure this situation. Rowland notes that this was four months age and since then more and more debris is piling up. ur unrest (See story to the left of photo) dnd a | + Two tragic deaths in the T ' Terrace was the scene of two tragic fatalities over the past - weelt with two young men dying* ~. one in a shooling accident and the other in a canoeing ac- _ eident. The first occured last Wed- nesday evening near Merkley - Road north of Terrace. Police - were called: (0 the scene and four a young Kitimat man. - Edward Duncan MacNeil suffering from .a .22. calibre, Mayor Rowland States “Utter Disbelief” did the District of Terrace Council deviale from its priorities. Mr. ‘Rowland continues “While I appreciate that the ’ Regional District is responsible for establishing ‘the .overall priorities for Green Belt acqulsition, I must reiterate the position -of the. District of Terrace with respect to Spring Creek Golf Course. In my’ opinion and in the opinion of my council], it is of (the ulmost- importance that the original cancept as: presented by adhered to for the benefit of the general Terrace area, The Terrace mayor concludes — bullet wound in his’ upper left abdomen. He was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival, MacNeill’ was. ap- parently alone in the weods at the time but others near-by reported the fatality (o the” police. - Then Sunday evening Terrace _ RCMP received a telephone call ‘reporting the sighting of a life- jacketed body floating in the Copper River about two miles ‘ his letter by asking (hat this _malter be placed before the: Kilimai-Siikine Regional District Board at its carliest convenience with-a ‘very slrong request thal they reconsider the - priorities, especially in view of the. face. thal the District of Terrrace was never nollfied of . this. change, thus depriving Council. of. the opportunity to restale ils position. — The Herald has in hand the agenda for the next meeting of the - Kitimat-Stikine: Regional District . Board which is scheduled for Terrace on Friday, August 23 at 2:00 p.m. . and this leller does not appear on this agenda. ‘Horizon | upstream from the Copper River Bridge. Shortly after that gall a young Terrace man came into the office and reported that while canceing the Copper River with Pat Darose, their canoe had over urned, The one made it to shore hitch-hiked to lown.and reported the fatality. The canceling: accident oc-- New | Meeting Sunday Housing. Wheel in Terrace application Is presently before - errace area i cured above the nine mile Harry Smith will fold a canyon. - preliminary inquiry inlo each of Indications are thal Coroner: the deaths, - Mayor . Gorden Rowland --deseribes a meeting with - several provincial and federal housing. officials as - dandy”, "just place in Terrace last Monday. Officials of the New. Horizois Program. which makes. funds available for Senior‘ Cilizen projects will be in Terrace this coming Sunday to discuss the program .and advise local Senior Cilizens how they can make use cf the program to obtain grants. The meeting which is for Senior Citizens will be held in the Senior Citizens Room in the Civie Center (Arena) beginning at 1:30 p.m. this coming Sun- day, August 25. ° Representatives” of Central Housing and Mortgage, the B.C. Housing Authority andthe Land Purchasing Commission were here ‘to examine: first hand Terraca's pricrities' and whal was required (o stimulate — housing in Terrace... - The mayor repeated the same story, Our. main problem is one of. services and until such time as -funds are obtained from some source there is litle likelihood of any great number of serviced lots coming on the market. Mr. Rowland made the point that this is particwarly the case for lots in he bench area, It is impossible to place any ad- ditional load on existing ser- vices in that area. The mayor reminded his visitors that an The meetings took . provinclal housing officials which would create the funding for ‘the first phase. of sanitary and storm sewer requirements for the community.. This js estimated to cost $1,000,000,. The second phase of the plan also would cost @ million dollars al today's prices while phase three would cost $400,000, again al today’s’ prices, It was confirmed thal. negotiation is going on at the present time for the purchase of a-large parcel of land to the northwest of the city and for several olher lots in town. However, as far as the Herald can ascertain, no money has -aglually changed hands as yet. Mayor Rowland expressed the opinion that once the Land Purchasing group has acquired certain lands that the provinelal coffers would be more likely to be used for the installation of large service grids in the community, prensa Gatien sats